We want to thank columnist Victoria Hugo-Vidal (The Maine Millennial, Sept. 3) for bringing back pleasant memories of northern Maine. We used to love to head up to Caribou to visit our son, Dylan, who was fortunate enough to land his first job as producer-editor (after graduating from Southern Maine Community College) at WAGM-TV in […]

The presidential funerals of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush cost the taxpayers over $400 million each! Much of the cost was to give all federal employees a holiday for the day of the funeral. That policy is both discriminatory and costly. Discriminatory because state, city and county employees, and those employed by the private […]

I’ve been putting my plastic bags in the Hannaford supermarket’s plastic bag bin for years. I was recently told that it’s all just public relations – that the plastic is just put in a landfill. Today I discovered this is not true. Hannaford takes the material to Trex (nextrex.com/view/educate), which makes composite decking out of […]

It’s like a game of whack-a-mole. The city of Portland and the Maine Department of Transportation or the Maine Department of Something Else whack away, but the homeless encampments pop up somewhere else again and again. Yet the cities and the governmental agencies resort to the same old policy. Whack, fail. Whack, fail. Hey, I […]

The corporations that don’t want Maine to vote for Pine Tree Power are spending a lot of money to confuse us. Let’s take their advertisement about adding an estimated $13.5 billion to Maine debt. The ad is designed to take advantage of our fear of taxes. All corporations have debt. They would rather we didn’t […]

Regarding a recent letter by an engineer in favor of the creation of Pine Tree Power (“Letter to the editor: Mainers deserve power over power grid,” Aug. 28), who stated, “Proponents of keeping our largest utilities private tout the benefits of not having ‘politicians run our grid,’ ” I think it’s probably a hard call […]

Regarding the Associated Press story of Aug. 29 (“Conservative groups devise plan to dismantle U.S. government and replace it with Trump’s vision”): If you love our country, want to preserve our republic and your right to vote, pay attention to those who would take all of this from you. They call themselves “conservative,” but they […]

Candidates intending to run for office must be judged fit to appear on the ballot. For president, a candidate must be at least 35 years old, and be a citizen of the U.S., this according to the U.S. Constitution. The 14th Amendment makes clear another requirement: “No person … who, having previously taken an oath […]